[Outro]
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About “Knockin' On Heaven's Door”

“Knockin' on Heaven’s Door” by Bob Dylan appears on his 1973 soundtrack album, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid.

In the film, the song plays after Sheriff Colin Baker, an ally of Pat Garrett portrayed by Slim Pickens, is mortally wounded in a shootout with Billy the Kid’s gang. Baker and his wife are by a riverside, preparing themselves for his death, which is not actually shown onscreen.

This song was included by the Western Writer’s as one of their Top 100 Western Songs of All Time.

What have the artists said about the song?

In a hybrid art exhibition commissioned for the London Halcyon Gallery dubbed ‘Mondo Scripto’, billed as “the first time [he has] fused together his artistic disciplines,” Dylan sketched a series of images to visually represent the themes and lyrics of 16 different lines from the song: